Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-05


Treasurers shall not proceed to collect delin-
quent taxes, by execution or distress, until
ten days after the addition of the fifteen
per cent. penalty, so that delinquent tax
payers shall have an opportunity within
such time to pay the taxes and penalty
without additional costs or expenses.
This Act shall take effect from and imme-
diately after the date of its approval.
SUGGESTIONS ABOUT HEALTH.-Phy-
sicians prescribe less medicine than in
former days, and probably would give still
fewer doses if it were not for respect to the
prejudices of their patients, who feel that
nothing is being done for their cure unless
they have something to take. The truth is
that pure air and abstinence from food is
all that is needed to g1vd relief, and the con-
scientious doctor hesitates to order drugs:
which are unnecessary. If "a person who is
feverish is shut up in an unventilated
room, breathing the same air over and
over again, covered with twice as many
bed clothes as are required, for fear he
might take cold, and given whatever he
can be persuaded to eat, the fever is not
came, he were to say, "Open the window,
take off all the blankets but one, give him
cool sponge bath and let him have moth
ing but milk, cracked ice and cold water,r'
and then go away without prescribing fur.
ther, the friends of the sufferer would shake
their heads and sigh to one another: "We
must send for some one else at once. How
can he get we'll without medicine?"
Whereas the doctor has really done more
to promote the recovery of the sufferer than
if he had left him in the unsanitary condi-
tion in which he found him, and prescribe
guinine and aconite ad libitum.- Good
Housekeeping.
How TO READ BoOKs.-It is always
worth while to read thing twice over, to
make sure that nothing has been missed or
dropped on the way, or wrongly conceived
or interpreted. And if the subject be Sc
rious, it is often we'll to let an interval
elapse. Ideas, relations, statements Of
facts are not to be taken by storm. We have
to steep them in the mind, in the hope of
thus extracting their inmost essence and
significance, If one lets an interval pass,
and then returns, it is surprising how clear
and ripe that has become which, when we
| left, seemed crude, obscure and full of per-
plexity.
All this takes trouble, no doubt; but
then, it will not do to deal with ideas as a
certain bird does with its eggs-leave them
in the sand for the sun to hatch and chauce
to rear. People who follow this plan pos
sess nothing better than ideas half hatched
and convictions reared by accident. They
are like a man who should pass up and
down the world in the delusion that he
is clad in sumptuous robes of pu" 'e and
velvet, and when in truth he is ouly half
covered by the rags and tatters Of other peo-
ple's castoff clothes.
FURMAN's CoMPosT.-The Southern Cul-
tivator gives the following formula for a ia
nous fertilizer in the cotton States:
The materials of Furman's compost are
barnyard manure, cotton seed, acid phOs-
phate and kainit. The proportions are thir-
ty bushels each of the first two, 400 pounds
of phosphate and 200 pounds of kainit.
These may he intimately mixed. at first, or
put in alternate layers of cotton seed, phos-
phate and kainit, and manure and so on.
The whole to be we'll mOistened and the
mixing, in the latter case, effected by cut
ting down the mass clear through from top
to bottom. You could add to heap from
time to time, using always the same proper
tions, but it is usual to make up all of CIV
en- heap at one time. If the heap is made
Ia pens, as It should be, with perpendicular
sides and at least four feet high, and the
compost covered on top with layer of rich
earth six inches thick, there is no necessity
not more than keep the mass as moist as 1t
should. The, compost should be put up at
least three weeks before it is to be applied {,
it is usually done six to eight weeks in
advance.
GRACEs OF OLD AGE-A face which has
for years been under the controlling and
shaping influences of good feeling and noble
thoughts has obtained thereby beauty Of